In this blog post I want to give an overview on what I am planning and working on for KWin in KDE SC 4.6. The big topic for 4.6 is performance – in 4.5 we introduced the blur effect and our designers want to extend the usage of blur to all windows. This is currently not yet recommendable (yes there are widget styles on kde-look which offer this function, but KWin is not ready for it!), so we have to work on it.

In general there are three topics I will address in the next cycle:

1. Mobile edition: port compositing stack to OpenGL ES 1.1 and/or 2.0

2. Improve performance: render less, render faster and more frames per seconds during animations

3. Stabilize the effect ABI to be able to provide BC latest in 4.7 (if it makes sense)

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